Elis Lapenmal
Vanuatuan sprinter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elis Lapenmal (born 6 September 1987 in Malakula) is a Ni-Vanuatu sprinter.
Competing at the World Athletics Championships in 2007, Lapenmal ran the 100 metres in 13.10 seconds.[1] She won a silver medal at the South Pacific Mini Games, and qualified as a "wildcard entry" to represent Vanuatu in the 100 metres event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[2]
Prior to the Beijing Games, the British newspaper The Guardian described her, along with Palestine's Hamza Abdu, as one of the Games' "underdogs",[3] and as such she has also been described as a "potential successor to (Eric) Moussambani".[4] In her first round heat in Beijing she placed eighth and last in a time of 13.31 which was not enough to advance to the second round.[5]
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